Word: tru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blessed by Betty Crocker (General Mills's make-believe home economist, "sponsor" of Wheaties, Kix, Cheerios, Gold Medal flour, etc.), some 100,000 "Tru-Heat" irons had already gone on sale in the Midwest. Priced at $10.15, they were snapped up. With demand for almostj any iron at an alltime high, this was no guarantee that the Tru-Heat would pay off when there were more irons on the fire. But even established appliance makers admitted that the new-fangled Tru-Heat was a good...
Physically and mentally, Harry Tru man was prepared for the exciting days of last week. His return trip from Potsdam - including 125 pleasant hours on the Atlantic - had been relaxing and restful...
...practical politician like Harry Tru man, Californian Edwin Wendell Pauley had a claim to a good job. Big, hulking Ed Pauley, operating oilman (Petrol Corp.) and fast-moving dealer in California oil properties, was a faithful, hard-working political war horse - treasurer of the Dem ocratic National Committee, a crack money-raiser, a tried & trusted Truman friend to boot. But there were few cheers in Washington last week when Harry Tru man announced that Ed Pauley was to be the U.S. member of the Allied Reparations Commission, with the rank of Ambassador...
...laws. The renegotiation law was passed by Congress last April to govern the process whereby the Army & Navy regularly negotiate their war-production contracts over & over again to prevent excessive war profits. In the spotlight was a lucid, compact 19-page report by the Senate's hard-working Tru man Investigating Committee. The report lambasted the four price boards (Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Treasury) for "confusion [and] too much secrecy," and suggested improvements...
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